The Emerald Tablet was said to have originally been a mysterious stone or crystal-like 
green tablet on which a coded spiritual formula was succinctly written in bas-relief. 
According to documentation from eleventh-century German theologian Albertus Magnus, 
Alexander the Great found the Emerald Tablet in Egypt in 331 BCE when he discovered 
what he believed was Hermes Trismegistus's tomb. Alexander immediately ordered that 
the Tablet be transcribed and translated. By 400 CE, however, the Tablet itself was 
reportedly buried along with other texts and artifacts - some say on the Giza Plateau - to 
protect it from destruction by religious zealots who were burning libraries and from 
patriarchs who condemned the Tablet's mysterious and universal formula for personal 
transformation and collective evolution. But the wisdom was nonetheless protected and 
became the cornerstone for Hermetic sciences and philosophy

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